China's one-child policy and ‘the mystery of missing women': Ethnic minorities and male-biased sex ratios

Recent estimates suggest that as many as 40 million women are ‘missing’ in China. We exploit a special provision in the Chinese one‐child policy (OCP; allowing for preferential treatment of ethnic minority groups) to revisit the mystery of these missing women, and in particular to explore the contri...

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Autores principales: Bulte, Erwin, Heerink, Nico, Zhang, Xiaobo
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Wiley 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153591

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